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2. Front engine dragster - Wikipedia

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   The front-engine dragster was an evolution from earlier front-engine hot rods and initially was a car from which all non-essential parts, including the body, had been removed to reduce weight, making the earliest dragsters essentially a production car chassis with a "souped-up" engine. These early dragsters were nicknamed "rails", due to the ...

3. Dragster (car) - Wikipedia

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   The front engine dragster came about due to engines initially being located in the car's frame in front of the driver. The driver sits angled backward, over the top of the differential in a cockpit situated between the two rear tires, a design originating with Mickey Thompson's Panorama City Special in 1954, as a way of improving traction. [1]

4. Nostalgia drag racing - Wikipedia

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   Nostalgia drag racing started in California in 1981 when old racers started using their front-engine "slingshot" dragsters, funny cars and Super Stockers to race again at Fremont drag strip also known as Baylands raceway park where the N.D.R.A. "nostalgia drag racing association" was formed by Tom Prufer along with partners Brian Burnett & Ken ...

5. Yellow Fang (dragster) - Wikipedia

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   Yellow Fang is a streamliner slingshot dragster. [1]Designed by Steve Swaja (with some tweaking by owner George Schreiber and his boss, "Big Daddy" Roth [2]) and built by Jim Davis in 1963, the car had a 153 in (3,900 mm) wheelbase.

6. Don Garlits - Wikipedia

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   Considered the father of drag racing, he is known as "Big Daddy" to drag racing fans around the world. A pioneer in the field of drag racing, he perfected the rear-engine Top Fuel dragster, an innovation motivated by the loss of part of his foot in a dragster accident. This design was notably safer since it put most of the fuel processing and ...

7. Showboat (dragster) - Wikipedia

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   Tommy Ivo's Showboat dragster with the body on. Showboat is a four-engined four-wheel-drive exhibition slingshot dragster, built by "TV Tommy" Ivo in the 1960s. Showboat featured four Buick nailhead V8s, linked together; two drove the rear wheels, two the front. [1] While Ivo never liked the name, Showboat proved one of the most popular models ...

8. Bushwacker (dragster) - Wikipedia

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   Bushwacker is a pioneering streamliner slingshot dragster. [1]Originally built by Pete Ogden as Goldfinger, the car had a 156 in (4,000 mm) wheelbase with dropped front axle and bicycle wheels, and an aluminum body (hammered by Arnie Roberts) which left the engine exposed but fendered the slicks.

9. Videoliner (dragster) - Wikipedia

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   It had a dropped front axle and bicycle wheels, a partially enclosed engine (leaving the blower and blower scoop exposed), and enclosed slicks (without wheel covers or skirts). [2] The rear of the cockpit was also closed, but there was no canopy. [2] The exhaust pipes exited flush with the top of the body on either side, ahead of the cockpit. [2]